Why Kitchen Nightmares Was Actually a Failure.

Anyone else think the kitchen nightmares success rate is better than people give it credit for? I see alot of people online saying that the "harsh reality" of Kitchen Nightmares is that only about 30% of restaurants get saved. Is it just me or is that pretty damn good. Without help, 100% of those restaurants were going to fail. On top of that, most of the restaurants still have staff/owners that were bad and allowed the business to fail. We may see them improve in the show but chances are alot of them fell back into their old habits after a while. I find 30% to be a decent rate, it's not easy to save a restaurant in that state and saving any of them at all is quite impressive to me.

According to a study by OSU, 60% of restaurants fail within their first year and 80% within their first five years. I've seen much harsher stats depending on geographic location, type of food provided, etc. In some places 90% of restaurants may fail within their first year.

People like to say that Gordon Ramsay doesn't really help restaurants and its all a big PR stunt, but I think that's objectively false. He clearly puts a lot of work into what the audience can clearly see are improvements.

A lot of the restaurants are within months of closing, and there were multiple that had already closed and reopened just for the show. If those shows last for another year or two I'd count that as a success. At a certain point you have to accept that they were either too far gone, too far in debt, or closed due to issues later on that you certainly can't blame Ramsay for.
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